Box-opener and tobacco-claw



(No Model.)

D. W. THAOKER.

I BOX OPENER AND TOBACCO CLAW. No. 394,547. Patented Dec. 11, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

DANIEL Vt. TIIACKER, OF SPRINGFIELD, ASSIGNOR OF TXVO-TIIIRDS TO JOHN B, BRIGHT AND CHARLES A. PHILLIPS, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

BOX-OPEN ER AN D TOBACCO-CLAW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lett s Patent N 0. 394,547, dated December 11, 1888.

Application filed April 26, 1888. Serial No. 271,925. (No model.)

To all whom it. may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL W. THAC'KER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the count y of (lax-k and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Box-Opener and Tobacco-Claw; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,\vhicli will enable. others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a single implement in which are united a. nail-extractor, a pry, a hammer, and a tobacco-claw.

The objeetsof myinvention are to open tobacco-boxes and to raise the plugs in the same by the use of a single implement formed of iron or steel.

The construction of the implement is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

Figure I is .ttfipview ot'iho implement,

A is the handle or part to 'be grasped by the hand in using the implement. This part. has

a swell at the center and is recessed on both 3 sides.

'lhe'cylimlrical part.(.t'orms the hammer and has pouriding-faces on both ends, and the sides serve as lulcrums for the pry.

removed by the extractor, and projecting nails driven back, and the lid is then pried 011' and the pin of tobacco arc detached, as above de-. scribed:

Ila-vine" fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, the tool,

as shown and described, comprising a middle part-or handle having; a curved claw at one end and a notched pr ornail-ext-ractor at its opposite end, and having a. transverse cylinder between said handle and said pry, the

ends of which se ve as hammer laces :ufdthe projecting sides as i'nlcrums for the pr and nail-extractor.

In testimony that. I claim the foregoing as my own I at'fix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL \V. 'll-IAQKER. Witnesses: I WILBER tonvrs, Wu. H. URYAM. 

